As someone who currently owns a Panamera, and shopped for what I liked most, with feedback provided by current Panamera owners... That clean, non-cluttered, glossy glass, piano black touch interface you think is so wonderful, is utter trash.

"But it's so sleek and intuitive and just beautiful!"

It's only beautiful so long as you try your hardest to keep it free from finger prints, smudges, dust, pollen, water/liquid spots, and on and on and on. Gloss black, glass like touch surfaces, is absolutely one of the worst additions in the automotive interior, more so than a "tacked on screen." You talk about intuitive, what's intuitive about Porsche forcing you to move the center air vent via touch surface only? There is no manual option and you have to use the screen, because the vent is motorized... That's insane.

The 970 Panamera has a button for everything and I love it. It's absolutely better than the clipboard sized glass surface in current models and I'm glad when I get into a C8, it will have physical buttons and not some garbage touch interface.

Lastly I particularly like those that keep saying the row of buttons isolates the passenger... When they've never sat in it. Those who have actually, physically sat in the car, have said it's not isolating like photos suggest.

 

I think it's good they put physical controls in the interior, though I don't think they will be nearly as intuitive as having a dial you can reach and turn from muscle memory. I think the biggest thing that makes the screen look "tacked on" is it's too large, and interrupts the flow of the dashboard.

I don't understand why the screen needs to be that big. The driver's eyes should be outside the car.

 

Tell that to happy Model 3 owners

 

Hopefully if GM reads the forum they will add a ton more adjustable functionality into the HUD, my C7 has a HUD so crooked/out of level that even the level adjustments in the DIC Menu still will not rotate it enough to make it level !!!

And that screen to the right of the steering wheel looks like an I-Pad they mounted to the dash, the flow of the dash behind it to the button bar leaves a lot to be desired.

I like old school ***** and buttons, hi-tech is great until the touch screen craps out or doesn't work, and then nothing works, a button or dial is more simple.

JMHO

 

I can see why some don't like the way the screen is mounted like that.
But to me it's more about Function over Form and I like that it's angled toward the driver.
I would rather have a large screen considering what the C7 screen is like.
C7 screen is a nice size, but sometimes there's so much stuff showing that can't be removed, and blocks a lot of the info .. Especially when using NAV.
At this point it is what it is

 

I like the interior for the most part my only complaint and agree with others is the added iPad took away the symmetrical look of the cockpit. It just looks like a last minute add on.

 

When I drive any of my cars especially the vette I don't give a **** about the passenger. They should enjoy riding and nothing else. The car is for me not them. Reminds me of the old Supra it's designed for the driver in mind. The only time you care about your passenger is when you have to have a soccer mobile.

 

Wouldn't that be a warranty issue, unless you are a midget?

 

Yes precisely, the touch screen integration that the 992 employs is what next to no one wants and does consider trashy. Those touch screens are horrible. I understand why you are quite pleased with the button and switches for everything in your 970, it is what the overwhelming majority of us want.

The troll that you responded to is clueless as he rips the C8 on a daily basis and in this episode of hate for its preferable switching gear and ergonomic placement.

 

I figured as much.

Anywho, ya I'm quite happy with my "outdated" 970 GTS. To be honest, I love every second behind the wheel and every one I've had in the car seems to love everything about it too. Hands down best sedan I've ever been in or owned.

 

Integrated along the bottom of that Info Screen is an Air Vent and the screen is fixed in place, no tilt or swing.

 

Yes it is, its not the level of height its the fact that it looks like one side is 1/2 higher than the other.

 

This is a great shot of the interior..one of the best I have seen. OMG what is that on the pillar on the left hand side of the dash ?

 

Agreed I have the molded ones that sit wedged in the lip of the console on passenger side in my C7.

 

All the young engineers that watched POKEMON and played video games are now designing the fast and furious interiors on the new vehicles.

GM just "FUBARED" their 2020 Silverado and Sierra lines of 1/2 and 3/4 ton trucks.........looks like ****, I guess they never took any design courses in College, or their heads up their *** ???

 

Sounds like you need to stay old school and be happy. Sell the damn thing and buy an older one👍

 

This is coming from the biggest troll on the forum. Can’t afford a 911 and doesn’t even own a Corvette. Keep it up wild man.... you are a hoot! Such a wannabe!

 

 

Why do the majority of your posts make some negative appraisal of another members finances? You call Corvette guys "broke bastards", Corvette guys can't "afford" a Porsche, etc. You seem to have an obsession with who has what. Trailer park childhood insecure behavior.

 

Gonna be a matter of preference. My son and I went to Kerbeck -- got up close but did not sit in.

I thought the cockpit was great and the "wall" probably not at all obtrusive and isolating. He had a different feel, saying he greatly preferred the C7. I like 'em both...will need to sit in a C8 to confirm of course...